IRRI project to help poor farmers in S Asia

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chennai: practices, the development and dissemination of improved rice, wheat and maize varieties and creation of a new generation of agricultural scientists and professional agronomists.

Three other international agricultural research centres-the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)-will partner with IRRI, national agricultural research organisations, education and extension systems, non-government organisations and private-sector companies to implement CSISA.

South Asia is home to 40% of the world’s poor with nearly half a billion people subsisting on less than $1 a day as they struggle to boost grain supplies in the wake of growing demand and strained natural resources.

By drawing on the combined strengths of a wide range of public and private sector partners, CSISA aims to accelerate the development and delivery of new technologies for resource-efficient, sustainable management of current and future cereal cropping systems. The initiative will build on past work by several initiatives in the region supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, including that of the Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains, which has developed and promoted with farmers and researchers resource-conserving technologies now used on as many as two million hectares.